Woah, so I went half way around the world for this one.
One Saturday afternoon I was eating popcorn and wanted to watch some Good Mythical Morning episodes about popcorn. So I was watching the “What’s the best microwave popcorn?” episode, and listening to Rhett & Link discuss how Orville Redenbacher, father of popcorn, died in 1995 while in a hot tub:
That got me thinking about this one time as a teenager watching that old VH1 show Pop Up Video. The video that was being “popped up” with facts was Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”, you know the video where he rolls around in the sand with a model:
One of the pop up facts was that Chris sued a popcorn company in the mid 90s because a knockoff version of his song played in a commercial. I remembered that, a knockoff version of the song playing in a commercial for these nasty Pop Secret Popcorn Bars:
BUT, when I went to search for the commercial, or an article about Chris suing Pop Secret, I couldn’t find it. Turns out it was for a completely different popcorn company. Yup, it was our boy Orville:
At first, I thought someone over at Billboard had a stroke at the keyboard and spelled Orville Redenbacher wrong. No, it was for a real popcorn product called Reden Budder. Yes, budder. It was flavored microwave popcorn.
Okay, this past weekend, I had the worst craving for an Impossible Whopper. Since I live out in the middle of nowhere, I had to wait until I went to work Monday to have my precious Impossible Whopper (I still can’t really digest meat due to my stomach surgery this past spring) . So I bid my time by looking up some odd Burger King articles.
I’m trying to even imagine how the pizza oven would even fit in the back of a Burger King kitchen. I mean, now Dominos has one that fits in a Chevy Spark, but back then I’m sure they were a lot bigger.
I brought up the Mr. Rodney commercial in one of my big list of favorite commercials posts a while back. What I forgot was to include was the article.
Yes! I remember when I was in elementary school going to Burger King at the food court a few doors down from the commissary at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton. What I didn’t know was that BK being on the base was a fairly new thing back then.
I love that Mark contacted the paper to let everyone know that that his landing of the BK hot air balloon was a controlled landing. EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL.
This is bizarre. I guess they had sand in their underwear over BK advertising during Married with Children?
In the wake of the Hurricane, then ceo Barry Gibbons told Nation’s Restaurant News that everything in his sixth floor office, including his desk, computer, files and personal items, had been blown away. Only a few key files were saved by his secretary. “It’s just nothing. Vaporized. I guess what I owned is in the lake.”
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Management promptly placed newspaper and radio ads asking employees to call an 800 number – actually a switchboard at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis – and let the company know where they could be contacted. Those employees were also told that they could receive assistance from the company. A pair of Winnebagos was set up outside the main gate, so that employees could come and tell the company where they were living and what their situation was.
Even so, it took Burger King a week to find everyone, and to learn that luckily none of its people had been killed. 1
Ah, yes there was a short time in the early 1990s where fast food places tried to get into the gourmet cappuccino craze but failed at first. I thought that’s why if you see the McCafe logo over at McDonalds, you see an est. 1993:
But it’s because the first McCafe was in Australia in 1993.
Another short lived fad of the mid to late 1990s, was the cyber cafe. Jeez louise, can you imagine how absolutely filthy those keyboards were if people were eating their Whoppers while surfing the net. I ate an Impossible Whopper in my car the other day, because you know in most towns you still can’t eat in Burger King. My car stunk for three days.
Barbara, litter from Burger King isn’t called McLitter. It’s called Burger Doodles?Yeah, that’s what I’m calling it. My dad would call Burger King “burger doodle” sometimes when I was lil.
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